Word: framingham
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...atherosclerosis, too little HDL may be as important a factor as too much LDL. On the other hand, the higher the level of HDL, the more it may aid in counteracting the effects of the bad cholesterol. This is the view of Dr. William Castelli, medical director of the Framingham Heart Study, a major research project that for the past 40 years has been following the cardiac history of residents of Framingham, Mass. "A number of us," says Castelli, "feel we can do a much better job of predicting who is at risk of getting heart disease if we look...
Brooks, who grew up in Framingham, denied that there was any rivalry with Flutie, the former Natick High School star and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Boston College...
Booth took pictures of women inmates in Framingham Women's prison from 1978 to 1982, after he had completed a stint there teaching photography. A portfolio of these photographs was published in Aperture Quarterly in 1983. The exhibit was also shown by the Midtown Gallery in New York City and the Marion Art Center...
...This bill, the spirit behind it, comes from the Legislature," the Framingham Democrat said, nothing his committee considered the proposal as early...
...rectal bleeding and peptic ulcers, have caused researchers to temper their excitement over the implications of the American study and warn individuals not to take aspirin frequently except under a doctor's care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, cautions that for aspirin-sensitive people a suddenly increased intake of aspirin could be "tragic...